Security threat to Harry not as high as he thinks, says Princess Diana's bodyguardSource: Good Morning Britain, ITV
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00:00 My view is that I don't think he's as high as he thinks it is.
00:03 He makes comparisons, as I said, to what happened to his mother.
00:06 Let's have a guess from you on the kind of security that he might be given
00:09 on the taxpayer in this country.
00:10 Let's say he's coming here on Sunday, he's staying for a week,
00:13 he's going to go to three of the royal palaces,
00:15 he's going out for dinner with friends,
00:17 and he's making a couple of media appearances in central London.
00:19 What kind of security would he expect to...
00:21 Would you expect the Home Office to give him?
00:23 Well, I think what he's demanding is this.
00:25 I mean, he would want a personal protection officer.
00:27 He would then want a close protection backup team
00:30 that would assist that... Well, forget what he wants.
00:32 What would he be... Yeah, but that's what he's demanding.
00:35 That's what would happen.
00:36 You know, I mean, to provide security for that particular example
00:40 you've just given, Richard,
00:41 would be at least one protection officer on an eight-hour period,
00:45 plus two other officers that would work in close proximity
00:48 to give him that protection. Armed?
00:49 Of course they would be armed, but that's what he's demanding.
00:51 But, you know, you have to assess, you know,
00:54 what the real risk and threat to this man is.
00:56 And my view is that I don't think he's as high as he thinks it is.
01:00 He makes comparisons, as I said,
01:01 to what happened to his mother in 1997 in Paris.
01:04 But they were totally different circumstances. Such a one-off.